Posted: April 25, 2006 11:34 am
The Venus flytrap takes less than half a second to slam shut on an insect.
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Posted: April 25, 2006 11:34 am
You are more likely to be struck by lightning than you are to be eaten by a shark.
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:35 am
Your foot is the same length as the distance between your wrist and elbow.
I just checked its true.
I just checked its true.
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:36 am
Europe is the only continent without a desert.
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:36 am
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:37 am
The actual playing time in a Major League Baseball game which lasts about two and a half hours has been clocked at 9 minutes and 55 seconds.
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:38 am
Mind your P's and Q's is an old bar expression. When someone told the bartender that another person had too much to drink he would reply "mind your P's and Q's" (pint and quart glasses of beer).
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:38 am
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:39 am
The national gold reserve is at Ft. Knox, the national silver reserve is at West Point NY.
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:41 am
The model of Ft Knox used in the James Bond movie Goldfinger sits in the Patton museum on Ft. Knox less than 2 miles from the actual depository.
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:45 am
General George S. Paaton (then 2LT) competed in the Pentathalon in the 1912 Olympic games.
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:46 am
Contrary to popular belief, London Broil is not a cut of beef but rather a method of cooking.
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:46 am
A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:50 am
Unless you have a doctor's note, its illegal to buy ice cream after 6 p.m. in Newark, New Jersey.
Posted: April 25, 2006 11:59 am
Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes
Posted: April 25, 2006 4:36 pm
DKD's shoe thread got me looking :
Carrie Bradshaw spent an estimated $400,000 on her closetful of shoes in Sex and the City.
Carrie Bradshaw spent an estimated $400,000 on her closetful of shoes in Sex and the City.
Posted: April 26, 2006 5:10 pm
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado!
Posted: April 26, 2006 5:10 pm
If you cut off a snail's eye, it will grow a new one.
Posted: April 26, 2006 5:10 pm
Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.
See? My guacamole is HEALTH FOOD!!!
See? My guacamole is HEALTH FOOD!!!
Posted: April 26, 2006 5:11 pm
Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.